First off, a big THANK YOU to Mark, the blog-fixer extraordinaire, without whom this blog would not be possible *bows*
And now, back to your regularly scheduled post…
A crazy thing happened here in Osaka this past Sunday morn. I was in the middle of a lesson and my student was trying to tell me about her favorite movie when she stopped mid-sentence and started looking around her room. I was mildly perplexed by this and then she calmly stated, “Sorry, earthquake.” All casual like it was a usual thing.
I confess some part of me panicked; I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to call tech or let the student log-off or what. She seemed fine, she looked around the room a couple more times, but then continued on with her sentence.
Not a minute or two later, I started to feel…dizzy almost. I couldn’t help looking around myself, wondering if I was the only person feeling this way. I noticed some of the tech staff looking abouts, too, thus assuring me that it was not just me.
It turns out it was my first tremor experience. I really can’t constitute it as an earthquake because technically, it was the aftershock.
It was a bizarre and strangely thrilling experience.
I heard about it this morning. On the radio they talked about some big earthquake that killed one and injured more than one hundred. It was only after reading various news articles and checking out a few maps that I was assured you were probably too far away to notice anything. But I guess you got some of it after all!
WOW!